Posted on: 14 Aug 2025
Admission is highly competitive at Wake Forest University, a mid-sized private school in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. They accept approximately one-fifth of applicants, and standards are high. In fact, almost 70% of enrolled students finished in the top decile of their high school class. At a school that rejects four of every five applicants, every aspect […]
Posted on: 14 Aug 2025
The University of Texas at Austin is one of the top public universities in the United States, and its ultra-elite business, engineering, and computer science programs attract brilliant teen minds from all over the world. It’s no wonder that close to 73,000 students applied for a chance to join the Longhorn Class of 2028. This […]
Posted on: 14 Aug 2025
UMass Amherst is one the top public universities on the East Coast. Yet, in 2025, as acceptance rates at highly-ranked schools plummet nationwide, the University of Massachusetts still lets over half of applicants enter its Amherst campus. While the overall UMass acceptance rate is still far from intimidating, certain programs are extremely competitive. Highly rated […]
Posted on: 14 Aug 2025
If you blinked at some point during the 2010s, you may have missed Tulane’s meteoric rise in selectivity that resulted in a 13% acceptance rate for the Class of 2028. However, today, this mid-size private research university in New Orleans is among the most selective schools in the country. The average incoming freshman possesses 99th […]
Posted on: 14 Aug 2025
The United States is filled with excellent schools that are extremely hard to get into. There are also a solid number of excellent schools that accept the vast majority of applicants. The University of Alabama acceptance rate is a shining example of the latter category. Students flock to Tuscaloosa for a thriving Greek life, an […]
Posted on: 13 Aug 2025
In the autumn of 1995, Ohio State University welcomed a typical freshman class of 5,794 individuals to campus. Ninety percent of this Buckeye cohort were Ohio residents and they carried an average SAT score of 1074 and a mean ACT just shy of 23. 30 years later, nearly 8,000 freshmen strutted onto campus with roughly […]
Posted on: 12 Aug 2025
A 3.6% acceptance for the Class of 2028 gives you a pretty informative introduction to the ultra-competitive admissions process at Harvard University. To dive deeper, Harvard rejects the majority of valedictorians who apply each year as well as a sizable chunk of those who bring 1600 SAT/36 ACT scores to the table. Further, in recent […]
Posted on: 12 Aug 2025
When applying to a school like Carnegie Mellon that only accepts 11% of applicants, it’s important to keep in mind that the other 89% of applicants will ultimately be denied admission. Many of these rejected individuals will have straight A’s in high school and/or SATs in the 1500s. Those applying to certain programs—computer science, for […]